Michael Hettich
Poetry: A Short Course in English Metrics and Forms
6 weeks: Wednesdays, May 28-July 2, 2008, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$95 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $80)

Workshop will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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In this class we will examine the most commonly-employed metrical patterns in English poetry and attempt to understand how these patterns work to create the rhythms of vivid poetry. Additionally, we will examine a wide range of traditional poetic forms—from the sonnet and villanelle to the haibun and ghazal—in an attempt to understand how traditional poetry “works.” Each week we will examine sample poems, practice scansion, and listen for the rhythms of thought each poem enacts. Original writings in each of these forms will also be attempted, as a means of gaining full understanding.

Michael Hettich has published a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Swimmer Dreams and Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems, both of which were published in 2005. His awards include The Tales Prize and Florida Arts Fellowships. Flock and Shadow was named a Book Sense Top Ten Pick in Poetry for 2006. He teaches at Miami Dade College.

Date and Time
Wednesdays
May 28- July 2, 2008
6:30-8:30 p.m.

Fee
$95, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $80)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.